Smyrna times., 1887-09-28
Additional Reason for a New Con.
stitutiOn.

StltutlOn.
Inc appointment of A. H. CabaI N
Mlspillion Hundred, who was mot IN
applicant for the Office of Clerk Of the
Feace over S. d. Roe, f. G. Frazier and
Cove ). Wilson each of whom boJ
strong recommendations from tba IaoJ -
ing cltlzens OF the county, is not com
mented on tavOrably either by the press
or the people. Judge" Jas. L. Hev-
erln' OF Dover, is thus quoted as saw
ing: But, gentlemen, this annoint-
ment onl shows the necessity for n
convention. Now, You all have seen
Chese men who have been engaged far
months IS getting recommendation To
the Governor for this place Tbev
nave spent their time and mopo,, i,
uoing-what? why, in complying With
an old obsolete feudal system of baT.
gihg the Governor to appoint them
ct we see the Governor turn oronDJ
ana ignore them, their friends and tho
people who recommended them and
say by his acts if not in words Cen
CIemen OF Kent although not a citizen
OF your county, am better able to saw
VINO VIII suit you than you are vouT-
serves. will appoint a man Clerk of
the Peace who has never asked me for
the place, and whom the people gener-
any know but little of Is there any.
thing right, just or proper in any such
Ghing! Paul says prove all things.
mold fast to that which is good
=, NOW we have proved for years
mat no good can come from this one
man power. lam friend of Governor
Blggs, and did what could to nomi-
nate MIN but say lis impossible for
Governor Biggs or any other man to
satisfy the people. In this nineteenth
century OF school houses and newspa-
pers, to think that the people will be
satisfied to sit quietly and let any man
say who shall rule over them, who
shall handle their funds and keen their |
records, without making an effort to
select their own officers, is to nv mind |
Is Governor Biggs en- |
dowed with special knowledge, that he
IS any more capable to say who shall
I'LL the offices in Kent and Sussex than |
are their own citizens, who have to
bear the burdens of taxation? No.
gentleman; away with any such feudal
ideas. They would answer very
good purpose no doubt fifty years ago.
when the people generally did not
read so much, and school houses were
scarce, but in this day of enlighten-
ment it will not do; and l say for one
It ought not to, and must be wiped
put" 'PoN
The Dover Lnder and Smyrna Record
both democratic in politics are response
Die for the following: while the peo-
Die were assembled in Philadelphia to
celebrate the one hundredth anniver-
AIRY of the ratification of the Federal
a few politicians were as
embed in a little room in the Girard
House over bowls of sparkling wine. !
obtained st the expense of the State
determining who should be the success .
or Of G. J. Hall, Esq, without regard
o the desires of the people. John f.
was the important individ.
al in that little coterie, for he repre-
ented John M. Ford, the proprietor of
he Bayard House in Dover and very (
distinguished relatives; then there
las Representative Harrington, e. T. J
cooper and Il. II. Kenney, who indi-
ated to the Governor the man to re-
Give the commission. They assumed
lat they were the people and
hen they spake the governor was
POLISH enough to believe that their Mt q
frances constituted the voice of the
emocratic party and the yielding of
nplieit obedience thereto was the
'mplete fulhllment of official duty
3, he thoughts but the people think
.herwisei the governor may accent
,unterieits for the genuine, but thew 2
i'll not without protest"
.... Il. P